Understimulation can be just as dysregulating as overstimulation for ADHD'ers.
Not having enough stimulation can be uncomfortable or even painful. Worse, it can encourage impulsivity, including big emotional responses, distraction, and overusing unhealthy ways of coping
Bob Dylan and Joan Baez — Blowin' in the Wind. Hard Rain TV Special, Fort Collins, 1976.
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Great work from The Caretaker / Woolhall getting hold of this new very low generation off master version of the full broadcast. Check his youtube channel for the full broadcast.
Leonard Cohen said the job of an artist isn't to create but to receive. A line he used often was: "If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often."
I hate it. I hate that my brain only kicks into magically effective hyperfocus under deadlines and crises. I am incredibly excellent in those situations, personal or work or otherwise. But it’s exhausting and fight-or-flight-ing and demoralizing. And it kills creativity. Blech.